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The best data protection strategy is to remove sensitive information from everyplace it’s not needed.

Have you ever wondered what sort of “sensitive” information might wind up in Apache Hadoop log files? For example, if you’re storing credit card numbers inside HDFS, might they ever “leak” into a log file outside of HDFS? What about SQL queries? If you have a query like select * from table where creditcard = ‘1234-5678-9012-3456’,

Learn how to read FIX message files directly with Hive, create a view to simplify user queries, and use a flattened Apache Parquet table to enable fast user queries with Impala.

The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol is used widely by the financial services industry to communicate various trading-related activities. Each FIX message is a record that represents an action by a financial party, such as a new order or an execution report.

Cloudera Enterprise 5.4 (Release Notes) reflects critical investments in a production-ready customer experience through governance, security, performance and deployment flexibility in cloud environments. It also includes support for a significant number of updated open standard components–including Apache Spark 1.3, Impala 2.2, and Apache HBase 1.0 (as well as unsupported beta releases of Hive-on-Spark data processing and OpenStack deployments).

Following these best practices can make your upgrade path to CDH 5 relatively free of obstacles.

Upgrading the software that powers mission-critical workloads can be challenging in any circumstance. In the case of CDH, however, Cloudera Manager makes upgrades easy, and the built-in Upgrade Wizard, available with Cloudera Manager 5, further simplifies the upgrade process. The wizard performs service-specific upgrade steps that, previously, you had to run manually, and also features a rolling restart capability that reduces downtime for minor and maintenance version upgrades.